title: [The causes and mechanisms of death in cardiomyopathies].
abstract: The author presents a retrospective and complex pathomorphological analysis in 152 autopsy cases. Death was caused by different forms of cardiomyopathies. Aim of the study to reveal the frequency of pathology, causes and mechanisms of death. The prevailing frequency of dilated cardiomyopathy was established--106 cases, 0.88%. Hypertrophic and restrictive forms--32 (0.27%) and 14 (0.12%) of cases. the dominating cause of death (42.7%) was chronic cardiac failure. Other death causes were as follows: thrombosis and embolism--17.8%; arrhythmic collapse--13.2%; ventricular fibrillation--9.9%; acute left-ventricular failure--8.6%; real cardiogenic shock--7.8% of all cases of cardiomyopathies.
authors.forename: V D
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Rozenberg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality*; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012737:Sex Factors; D014455:Ukraine / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Prichiny i mekhanizmy smerti pri kardiomiopatiiakh.